7 (a) Explain the current and financial accounts in the balance of payments. Balance of Payment or also called as BOP is a statistical statement that systematically records of all economic transactions between one country and the rest of the world during a given period of time. For example‚ BOP shows the details of the total payments made by a country and also the total receipts by it. There are three major components that are summarized in the BOP which are Current account‚ Capital account and
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CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF PAYMENTS SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS QUESTIONS 1. Define the balance of payments. Answer: The balance of payments (BOP) can be de fined as the statistical record of a country’s international transactions over a certain period of time presented in the form of double-entry bookkeeping. 2. Why would it be useful to examine a country’s balance of payments data? It Answer: would be useful to examine a country’s BOP
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in the foreign exchange market? (a) Inter-bank trading (b) Government transfers (c) Sale of good and services (d) Government purchase of assets (e) Foreign imports Answer: A (2) A country’s current account (a) balance equals the change in its net foreign wealth. (b) balance equals the change in its foreign wealth. (c) surplus equals the change in its foreign wealth. (d) deficit equals the change in its foreign wealth. (e) None of the above. Answer: A (3) The aggregate money demand depends
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BALANCE OF TRADE AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS – An Introduction The balance of payments account indicates a systematic record of all export incomes and import payments of a country during any year. Any import from abroad has to be paid for. On the other hand‚ any export will bring money flow into the country. If we subtract the total value of the imported commodities from the total value of the exported commodities of a country‚ what we obtain is called the ‘Balance of Trade’ of the country. If the
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India’s balance of payments in transition C. P. Chandrasekhar Jayati Ghosh Recent weeks have seen a weakening of the rupee‚ even as the BSE Sensex shows signs of buoyancy. Underlying this trend are developments on the balance of payments front which point to a transition that could lead to an increase in external vulnerability‚ argue C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh. WITH the rupee touching a 10-month low early this October and settling at well above the 44-to-the dollar mark‚ observers
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Analysis of Argentina Balance of Payments The economic situation of Argentina was interesting between 1998 and 2007. However‚ it can be assumed that the worst year of the Argentinean economy was 2002. Before 1998‚ some factors such as a huge debt reaching 55% of the GDP‚ a currency pegged to the US $‚ the “Tequila” crisis in 1995‚ the devaluation of Mexican and Brazilian currencies‚ were responsible of the crisis Firstly we compared trade and GDP‚ to obtain the trade openness ratio. It increased
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JULY 2013 ISSN 2286-4822‚ www.euacademic.org IMPACT FACTOR: 0.485 (GIF) Bangladesh’s Balance of Payments: an Econometric Analysis M. S. RAHMAN CHOWDHURY Department of Economics Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University Trishal‚ Bangladesh Abstract: The study was conducted at the Department of Economics‚ University of Chittagong‚ Bangladesh between December 2010 and April 2011. Balance of payments plays the most important role in a country’s economy. As a developing country‚ Bangladesh
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Business Studies Department of Finance‚ University of Dhaka. Subject: Submission of Report on “Balance of Payment on Malaysia”. Sir‚ Here is the report on “Balance of Payment on Malaysia” that you have asked us to conduct. To prepare this report we had to focus on the balance of payment of Malaysia. We tried to bring out the trend of different accounts which make the balance of payment of it. We also tried to bring out the movement of foreign exchange and the possible reasons of this movement
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CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF PAYMENTS SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS QUESTIONS 1. Define the balance of payments. Answer: The balance of payments (BOP) can be defined as the statistical record of a country’s international transactions over a certain period of time presented in the form of double-entry bookkeeping. 2. Why would it be useful to examine a country’s balance of payments data? Answer: It would be useful to examine a country’s BOP for
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Balance of payments (BOP) accounts are an accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of the world.[1] These transactions include payments for the country’s exports and imports of goods‚ services‚ and financial capital‚ as well as financial transfers. The BOP accounts summarize international transactions for a specific period‚ usually a year‚ and are prepared in a single currency‚ typically the domestic currency for the country concerned. Sources of funds for a nation
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